Biography

A teacher highly recommended to Frances Seward by Abby Hall, March 21, 1833, "Mrs Sanborn is herself a very superior & lovely woman, one on whose judgment you would feel it safe to rely if you were acquainted with her. From the opportunities she has had of knowing Miss Colburn thoroughly & from the manner in which she speaks of her I should at once secure her if I wished a teacher for my daughters & I know no one to whom I would as soon offer such an advantage as to yourself- I am quite doubtful though whether your daughter has yet attained the age which will make Miss Colburn desirable to you, but I know your kindness will excuse the trouble I give you of reading letters if she has not. You will perceive that Mrs Sanborns letter was written last Sept. I have since received from her another in which she says ^of Miss Colburn^ she was with me more than two years & “was as dear to me as an own sister. She is peculiarly amicable & agreeable as a member of the family & is always very much beloved by her pupils- She would not of course expect so large a compensation in a private family as if she were in a school.” Mrs Stevens of Concord , has also written to Miss Maclean...“this young lady is very dear to me as one of the loveliest I ever knew & moreover the one whom I shall probably at some distant day call my sister. The latter fact would make me quick sighted as to defects of character but I find instead of these almost every thing to admire & be grateful for. She is so conscientious, so cheerful, so refined, so winning in her ways that “none know her but to love her” & that she exerts the happiest influence over her young pupils. She has never taught except at Hanover. There my sisters and Cathy Sanborn have improved vastly under her tuition.”